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Title: Engaging With God: A Biblical Theology of Worship by David Peterson, I. Howard Marshall ISBN: 0-8308-2697-1 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Clearly, The Best Work on This Complex Subject
Comment: I've been studying this issue for more than 25 years, and I've read many more than 100 scholarly books and articles on the subject. Peterson's work stands far above all others as the premiere treatment of the biblical material on worship.
He successfully cuts through today's all-too-common misconceptions of the word and presents a comprehensive picture of what the Bible really says about it. Peterson is a qualified scholar, and his research and handling of the Greek and Hebrew origins ably demonstrates his expertise.
He is also unafraid to challenge other scholarly works on this complex subject. His respect for scriptural teaching and his capability for "rightly handling the word of truth" is obvious on every page.
This is not light reading, yet it is apparent that Peterson has endeavored to write in a style that may be understandable by seminarians and professors, as well as those in the pulpit and those in the pew.
Properly understood and applied, Peterson's book has the potential to revolutionize Christian churches and revitalize Christian lives. A hundred years from now, I dare to say that Peterson's landmark work will still be regarded as the benchmark book on the subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the few true Biblical Theologies on the topic
Comment: In preparing to develop and teach a theology of worship for our church's Sunday School, I have of late accumulated a large number of works on the topic which provide some rudimentary background and systematic foundation, only to turn and focus primarily on practical methodology. I have also found a fair number of writings with 'an agenda'...several appear to have been intended to rebut a recent argument or conflict.
What has been sorely lacking is a balanced and sound exegetical development of a Biblical theology of worship FROM THE BIBLE, apart from the contemporary rhetoric and 'worship wars' which characterizes so much current thought.
Peterson begins with a thoughtful (though not entirely comprehensive...Carson's seems more thorough to me) definition of worship, and works through detailed examinations of key OT and NT passages of prescriptive and descriptive texts. I found his textual work both defensible and insightful, and his conclusions provocative and resonant with the corpus of the Scriptures.
This book, in conjunction with the recent "Worship By the Book" (edited by D.A. Carson) to be the two most useful materials on worship I have found for my preparations.
Other works which I found more narrowly useful on particular related subtopics include John Frame & Marva Dawn (useful in a David Wells-ish postmodern perspective on worshippers, although a subtle Christian Feminism perspective is noted).
Hopefully, an objective reading of Peterson and Carson will yield similar conclusions in your studies.
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Title: Worship by the Book by D. A. Carson, Mark Ashton, R. Kent Hughes, Timothy J. Keller ISBN: 0310216257 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Enter His Courts With Praise!: Old Testament Worship for the New Testament Church by Andrew E. Hill ISBN: 080109030X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The New Worship: Straight Talk on Music and the Church by Barry Wayne Liesch, Donald P. Hustad ISBN: 0801063566 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: 21 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: A Brief History of Christian Worship by James F. White ISBN: 0687034140 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Worship in Spirit and Truth by John M. Frame ISBN: 0875522424 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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